2007–08 Hamburger SV season

During the 2007–08 German football season, Hamburger SV competed in the Bundesliga.

Hamburger SV

2007–08 season
Manager	Huub Stevens
Stadium	Volksparkstadion
Bundesliga	4th
DFB-Pokal	Quarter-finals
Intertoto Cup	Winners
UEFA Cup	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	Ivica Olić & Paolo Guerrero (14)

Season summary

Hamburg improved to finish fourth, though they were 10 points off Champions League qualification.

First-team squad

Squad at end of season[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Frank Rost 2 DF  ARG Juan Pablo Sorín 3 DF  CMR Timothée Atouba 4 DF  GER Bastian Reinhardt 5 DF  NED Joris Mathijsen 6 MF  BEL Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe 7 FW  EGY Mohamed Zidan 8 MF  NED Nigel de Jong 9 FW  PER Paolo Guerrero 10 DF  BEL Vincent Kompany 11 FW  CRO Ivica Olić 12 GK  GER Wolfgang Hesl 13 MF  GER Mario Fillinger 14 MF  CZE David Jarolím 15 MF  GER Piotr Trochowski[notes 1]

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  BLR Anton Putsila (on loan from Dinamo Minsk) 17 FW  NGA Macauley Chrisantus 18 MF  NED Romeo Castelen[notes 2] 19 DF  GER Jérôme Boateng 20 DF  CIV Guy Demel[notes 3] 22 FW  GER Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting[notes 4] 23 MF  NED Rafael van der Vaart 24 DF  SVN Mišo Brečko 26 DF  GER Volker Schmidt 28 MF  GHA Otto Addo[notes 5] 29 GK  GER Raphael Wolf 30 DF  NAM Collin Benjamin 31 MF  GER Timo Kunert 32 MF  GER Änis Ben-Hatira[notes 6] 34 FW  GER Sidney Sam

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 6 MF   SUI Raphaël Wicky (to Sion) 16 FW  GER Mustafa Kučuković[notes 7] (to 1860 Munich)

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF  GER Sebastian Langkamp (to Karlsruhe) 25 MF  COD Kosi Saka (on loan to Carl Zeiss Jena)

Results

Third round

21 July 2007	Dacia Chișinău	1–1	Hamburg	Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău
	Boicenco  7'		van der Vaart  70' (pen.)	Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Bruno Paixão (Portugal)

29 July 2007	Hamburg	4–0	Dacia Chișinău	AOL Arena, Hamburg
	Kompany  50' van der Vaart  71' Benjamin  76' Jarolím  89'			Attendance: 51,000 Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Hamburg won 5–1 on aggregate.

Second qualifying round

16 August 2007	Honvéd	0–0	Hamburg	Szusza Ferenc Stadium, Budapest
19:00 CET				Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

30 August 2007	Hamburg	4–0	Honvéd	HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
20:30 CET	Guerrero  9', 38' Smiljanić  50' (o.g.) Choupo-Moting  90'			Referee: Julián Rodríguez Santiago (Spain)

Hamburg win 4–0 on aggregate

First round

18 September 2007	Litex Lovech	0–1	Hamburg	Lovech Stadium, Lovech
			Castelen  75'	Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)

4 October 2007	Hamburg	3–1	Litex Lovech	Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
	Guerrero  40', 52' Van der Vaart  71'		R. Popov  38'	Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)

Hamburg won 4–1 on aggregate.

Group stage

25 October 2007	Brann	0–1	Hamburg	Brann Stadion, Bergen
19:00		Report	Kompany  62'	Attendance: 13,029 Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis (Greece)

29 November 2007	Hamburg	3–0	Rennes	HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
19:00	Van der Vaart  30' Choupo-Moting  84' Zidan  90'	Report		Attendance: 36,472 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

5 December 2007	Dinamo Zagreb	0–2	Hamburg	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb
20:45		Report	De Jong  88' Trochowski  90+3' (pen.)	Attendance: 18,870 Referee: Douglas McDonald (Scotland)

20 December 2007	Hamburg	1–1	Basel	HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
20:45	Olić  73'	Report	Ergić  58'	Attendance: 48,917 Referee: Nicolai Vollquartz (Denmark)

Round of 32

2008-02-14	Zürich	1–3	Hamburg	Letzigrund, Zürich
20:30	Hassli  88'	(Report)	Jarolím  49' Olić  67' Trochowski  77'	Attendance: 16,800 Referee: Alan Kelly (Ireland)

2008-02-21	Hamburg	0–0	Zürich	Arena Hamburg, Hamburg
17:00		(Report)		Attendance: 33,586 Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

Hamburg won 3–1 on aggregate.

Round of 16

2008-03-06	Bayer Leverkusen	1–0	Hamburg	BayArena, Leverkusen
21:05	Gekas  77'	(Report)		Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

2008-03-12	Hamburg	3–2	Bayer Leverkusen	Arena Hamburg, Hamburg
17:45	Trochowski  53' Guerrero  65' Van der Vaart  81'	(Report)	Barbarez  19' Gekas  55'	Attendance: 37,083 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

Hamburg 3–3 Bayer Leverkusen on aggregate. Bayer Leverkusen won on away goals.

References

1. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/ger/2007-2008/bundes/hamburg.htm

Notes

1. Trochowski was born in Tczew, Poland, but was raised in Germany from the age of 5 and made his international debut for Germany in October 2002.
2. Castelen was born in Paramaribo, Suriname, but also qualified to represent the Netherlands internationally and made his international debut for the Netherlands in August 2004.
3. Demel was born in Orsay, France, but also holds an Ivory Coast passport and made his international debut for the Ivory Coast in 2004.
4. Choupo-Moting was born in Hamburg, Germany, and represented them at U-19 and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Cameroon internationally and would make his international debut for Cameroon in 2010.
5. Addo was born in Hamburg, Germany, but also qualified to represent Ghana internationally and made his international debut for Ghana in February 1999.
6. Ben-Hatira was born in West Berlin, Germany, and represented them at U-19, U-20, and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Tunisia internationally and would make his international debut for Tunisia in February 2012.
7. Kučuković was born in Novi Grad, SFR Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), but also qualified to represent Germany internationally and represented them at U-19, U-20, and U-21 level.